Smetana’s Homeland Sounds.
Smetana: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2. Like the music of Antonin Dvorak, composer Bedřich Smetana succeeded in painting his native Czech countryside. And his two quartets show us this country in it full passion …
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Solti as Teacher.
Georg Solti: In rehearsals and performance As a young conductor, Hungarian-born Georg Solti was an assistant to Arturo Toscanini at the Salzburg Festival during the early 1930’s. His role was to prepare the singers, …
Fine Young Quartet.
Klenke Quartet Performs: Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (fragment), D703 ‘Quartettsatz‘ String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 ‘Rosamunde’ String Quartet No. 4 in C major, D46 …
Janine Jansen plays Bach.
Janine Jansen plays Bach. On this recording, we hear the following selections: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV1042 Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV1041 Concerto for Oboe, Violin …
Mahler’s Sixth.
World Orchestra for Peace performs Mahler. The World Orchestra for Peace was founded in 1995 by Sir Georg Solti to reaffirm, in his words, “the unique strength of music as an ambassador for …